Cars That Think
MARCH 18, 2022
In case of power outage at home, the DC pins in the charger can send juice back into the house, keeping the lights on. For its part General Motors—the power behind Chevrolet and GMC—is now set to work with San Francisco-based Pacific Gas & Electric to test forthcoming GM electric vehicles as on-demand power sources for homes.
Cars That Think
MARCH 11, 2023
In 1997, Willett Kempton , a professor at the University of Delaware, and Steve Letendre , a professor at Green Mountain College, in Vermont, began publishing a series of journal articles that imagined the bidirectional EV as a resource for electricity utilities. After earning a Ph.D. He recruited Rippel and Cocconi for both jobs.
Blink Charging
MARCH 3, 2022
The Leaf models were used as portable power stations , with enough juice to power the average Japanese home for four days, power 6,200 smartphones, or run 100 elevator round trips in a 48-story building. . “I worked for an electric utility in the ’90s and performed hurricane restoration duties in a GM EV1.
Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven
APRIL 20, 2009
Neutral Templarian @ Apr 19th 2009 4:30PM Good to hear, hopefully GM has already started to use this for the Volt. Featured stories Feed mophie Juice Pack Air hands-on and impressions How would you change HPs Mini 1000 Mi? The 8900 Curve has micro USB. The Toco has a mini USB port for main power. Is this the Zune HD?
Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven
APRIL 16, 2009
When GM installed chargers for the EV1 they used a 50amp 220V circuit that could pump over 6KW into the batteries. A visit to the gas station takes minutes not seconds and so the California Air Resource board, when it established fast charging standards, set the goal of charging the batteries to 80% in 10 minutes.
Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven
APRIL 16, 2009
For on-the-go juice ups, the idea is to exchange your dead battery for a fresh one owned by Better Place. Extended-range electric vehicles — such as the Chevy Volt, which GM says will recharge in three hours — offer another route, adding a small gas engine to keep drivers from feeling stranded without access to fuel.
Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven
APRIL 16, 2009
So while my car is powering the great city during the day how will I have juice to drive home at the end of the day? DE (1) Agricultural offsets (1) Always On Going Green (1) Applied Materials (1) Appropedia (1) Aqua Resources Fund (1) Arnold Schwarzenegger (1) BMWG.F (1) 2:54 PM Anonymous said. 5:53 PM Anonymous said. SZ (1) 6753.T
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